Thank you.
Good afternoon, honourable members of Parliament. My name is Nathan Neufeld, and this is my colleague Jonathan Dueck. We are from Evergreen Solutions, a smaller, mid-size green-chemistry innovation company located in southern Alberta in the lovely riding of Foothills. We're both extremely honoured and excited to be here today, participating in this most exciting process of advancing clean technology in Canada's natural resource sectors. Allow me to begin by sharing with you a little about who we are, beginning with our mission statement.
Evergreen Solutions creates and supplies practical working solutions with an unprecedented optimization of performance to industry, incorporating product, HS and E, and real value to the corporate bottom line. Our core focus at Evergreen Solutions is to create clean chemical technology for industry that outperforms conventional technology while being very much commercially viable. Evergreen Solutions has over 20 years of experience in developing clean chemical technology and currently supplies its products across Canada, the U.S., and throughout the world. Evergreen Solutions and its innovative products have received a very high level of acceptance in Canada's natural resource sectors.
We tackled the question, “How can the federal government effectively and efficiently influence the further advancement of clean technology within Canada's natural resource sectors?” We chose to focus on our past experiences around our efforts in developing clean technology and subsequent efforts to commercialize this technology within these sectors. More specifically, we would like to present four brief case studies, two of which we characterize as successes, meaning that we were able to achieve great commercial success. The final two case studies are characterized as misses; that is, we may have successfully developed the technology but were unsuccessful in gaining an acceptable level of commercial attraction.
In all four cases, as Jon shares them, he'll focus on where we found existing federal government policy instruments helpful in contributing to successful commercialization. We'll also share where we feel policy instruments or tools could have assisted in turning our misses into successes.
For our conclusion, we'll share four suggestions that we feel would be of great benefit to our organization and many others in the quest to de-risk the adoption of clean technology in Canada's natural resource sectors.
Jonathan.